Senior Process Engineer

Company: Orion Group
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Location: Scotland
Job Description:

A staff requirement for Senior Process Engineer with a North Sea operator client in Aberdeen. Hybrid working available.

Team Lead with line management responsibilities for 1 x Process Engineer and 1 x Production Chemist.

  • Ensuring the safe operation of company’s upstream facilities; acting as a process safety ambassador, improving ways of working, and delivering plant changes to manage process safety risks to ALARP.
  • Driving greenhouse gas reduction; identifying and implementing initiatives to minimise company’s overall emissions.
  • Maximising performance through surveillance, production system optimisation (PSO), increasing production, eliminating waste, and reducing costs.
  • Employ adaptive thinking to provide technical solutions to project with complex systems to provide best technical and economically robust solutions.
  • Responsible for daily surveillance taking appropriate actions using available tools.
  • Responsible for start-up requirements and review of Pre-Commissioning procedures for new and existing equipment.
  • Assure a plan is in place to maximise equipment availability.
  • Review and facilitation of Management of Change where required.
  • Support of medium and long term strategic scopes – management and identification of Threats and Opportunities for the facility.
  • Responsible for the application of the Process Engineering discipline performance standards and SECE’s. Approve deviations against SECE Performance Standards.
  • Provide assurance on Process Engineering discipline health including Performance Standards and SECE compliance.

Experience & Qualifications

  • Proven visible personal and process safety leadership behaviours and experience.
  • Significant exposure to upstream operations support. This is an operational position, not a project based role.
  • Assessed as Process Engineering Technical Authority.
  • Demonstrated track record of collaborative behaviours and influencing skills with an outcome focus.
  • Able to be the Engineering / Technical Lead in engagements with external parties such as Regulator and key Stakeholders.
  • Able to make priority decisions to ensure best outcome for project facility on Safety, Production and Cost.
  • Leader of a team of multi-disciplined engineers driving a strong continuous improvement culture.
  • Act as a coach and mentor while being proactive in your own talent management and capability development.
  • Ability to work within a multi-disciplinary team.
  • Courage to stand up for personal convictions and deliver enterprise first outcomes.
  • Ability to prepare and review technical drawings, reports and procedures.
  • Experience in risk identification, assessment and mitigation.
  • Experience of modelling and simulation using standard software packages.
  • Either be a Chartered Chemical Engineer or working towards Chartership.

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Posted: May 2nd, 2026